Christian Moral Action

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Christian Moral Action Summary
- Bonhoeffer Background
- Bonhoeffer Timeline
- Church as Community
- Duty to God V Duty to State
- Cost of Discipleship
- Is Bonhoeffer's theology relevant today
- Should Christians practice civil disobedience?
- Does B place too much emphasis on suffer
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Bonhoeffer Timeline - 1906-1933
1906 - Born in Breslau, Germany
1912 - family moved to Berlin, happy childhood
1918 - elder brother Walter killed in WWI frontline
1923 - studied theology at the University of Tübingen, moved to Berlin a year later
1930 - New York, studied theology under
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Bonhoeffer Timeline - 1934-1945
1934 - Barmen Declaration, confessing & Nazi Church split (Hitler leader of Christianity)
1935 - Finkenwalde set up, trained Confessing ministers, closed 1937 by Gestapo
1939 - went to US to prevent joining Hitler's army, returned to Germany in 1940, join
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Bonhoeffer Background
- 7 siblings, twin sister Sabine
- Father - Professor of Psychiatry & Neurology
- Grandfather - Theologian
- Mother - painter
- Grew up in Grunewald, suburban Berlin
- Deeply political but non-religious family; reacted with shock when Bon studied theology
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Church as Community
- Salt & light - speak up for voiceless, do not be opinion-less bystanders
- Mary & Martha - listen to Jesus & act using it
- Barth says God chooses to reveal Himself to us, Bonnie expands this by saying we must act on it
- Confessing Church - Finkenwald
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Duty to God V Duty to the State
- Duty to God = obeying His will
- "Everyone subject to the governing authorities"
- Leader vs leadership (the community needs)
- Hitler's ideas more important than community
- Bonhoeffer's obedience was to God, not the state (assassination, broadcast, pu
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Cost of Discipleship
- Discipleship - leave old life behind, new life of JC
- Ethics is action - action is liberating
- JC = "man for others", Church is "body of Christ" = "Church for others" - solidarity with the Jews
- Cheap Grace - believing you are worthy of Grace for f
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Bonhoeffer Quotes
"When Christ calls a man, he bids him and come die... suffering then, is the badge of true discipleship"
"costly because it costs man his life, and it is grace because it gives man the only true life. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life o
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Is Bonhoeffer's theology relevant today?
- Multi-faith society = cannot replicate Bon's view that everyone should convert to Christianity
- Wanted rights & protection for all
- Use sympathy & costly Grace to develop genuine multi-faith societies
- Nazis = extreme circumstance? Multiple threats
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Should Christians practice civil disobedience?
- Yes in totalitarian state e.g Nazi Germany
- extreme injustice = ethics put into action
- Romans 13 - do not challenge the authorities
- Old Testament prophets spoke out against rulers who failed their responsibility
- Jesus challenged local religious
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Can we always know God's will?
- Obey God's will even if it contradicts authorities
- Know God's will in the moment
- Use the WHOLE Bible, not just parts
- Psalms read by all as they confront all aspects of life
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Does Bonhoeffer place too much emphasis on suffering?
- Time-sensitive beliefs
- Not all Christians experience Nazi Germany
- Can Bonnie's theology be used during times of peace?
- Solidarity - all need company in suffering
- Not a lot of hope
- Not too much emphasis as he believed suffering and sacrifice is
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Bonhoeffer Vocabulary
Aryan clause (exclusion of Jews & Slavics)
Confessing Church (separate from Nazi Church)
Barmen Declaration (Confessing Church beliefs)
Abwehr (German intelligence service)
Valkyrie (Hitler assassination plot)
Western void (West without Christianity)
Rel
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1906 - Born in Breslau, Germany
1912 - family moved to Berlin, happy childhood
1918 - elder brother Walter killed in WWI frontline
1923 - studied theology at the University of Tübingen, moved to Berlin a year later
1930 - New York, studied theology under

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Bonhoeffer Timeline - 1906-1933

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1934 - Barmen Declaration, confessing & Nazi Church split (Hitler leader of Christianity)
1935 - Finkenwalde set up, trained Confessing ministers, closed 1937 by Gestapo
1939 - went to US to prevent joining Hitler's army, returned to Germany in 1940, join

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- 7 siblings, twin sister Sabine
- Father - Professor of Psychiatry & Neurology
- Grandfather - Theologian
- Mother - painter
- Grew up in Grunewald, suburban Berlin
- Deeply political but non-religious family; reacted with shock when Bon studied theology

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- Salt & light - speak up for voiceless, do not be opinion-less bystanders
- Mary & Martha - listen to Jesus & act using it
- Barth says God chooses to reveal Himself to us, Bonnie expands this by saying we must act on it
- Confessing Church - Finkenwald

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